Binding in Najdi Arabic: Types of Reflexives, the Argument Structure of Reflexive Constructions and Possessive Reflexives
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1407.27Keywords:
reflexives, locality, argument structure, theoretical study, Arabic syntaxAbstract
The present paper investigates reflexives in Najdi Arabic (NA). We start by examining how the encoding of reflexivity in NA can be attained lexically, morphologically, and syntactically. We also investigate the argument structure of reflexive constructions in NA in accordance with Reinhart and Siloni’s (2005) bundling approach. Finally, possessive reflexives and their cross-linguistic distribution with definiteness marking are examined, providing empirical coverage to this area in NA.
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